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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VILLAINS IN LITERATURE Matches Found: 50 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE TWA BRETHREN [OR, TWIN BROTHERS] (1)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were twa brethren in the north Last Line: And that will never be Subject(s): Brothers;murder;villains In Literature; Half-brothers A SMUGGLER'S SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet Last Line: Gentlemen go by! Subject(s): Smuggling & Smugglers; Villains In Literature ANNETTE MYERS, OR, A MURDER IN ST. JAMES PARK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Another dreadful tale of woe as I will here unfold Last Line: What dreadful tidings to convey unto his family Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature BAG-SNATCHING IN DUBLIN, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisley %walked so nicely Last Line: Murderer her for 6/6 Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature BALLAD OF THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER, by BLAKE MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Voice said 'lad, get crackin Last Line: Ah were putty in its ands Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature BALLADE D'UNE GRANDE DAME, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven shall forgive you bridge at dawn Last Line: It shall not be forgiven you Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Villains In Literature BASE DETAILS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath Last Line: I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Soldiers' Writings; Villains In Literature; World War I; First World War CANON'S ASSISTANT'S TALE, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amongst us there's a canon regular Last Line: Without a notion of his fraudulence Subject(s): Con Artists; Villains In Literature CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady eva brackwell, the most lovely debutante of last Last Line: To the illegal? Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Debutantes; Sherlock Holmes; Villains In Literature CLARISSA HARLOWE POEM, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down then, thou rogue thou, red three-cornered varlet Subject(s): Villains In Literature DON GIOVANNI, SELS., by LORENZO DA PONTE Poem Source First Line: Little lady, you are not going to like this Last Line: You'll be certain what he wants Subject(s): Seduction; Villains In Literature EPITAPH ON A TYRANT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; Dictators EPITAPH ON A TYRANT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after Last Line: When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter %and when he cried the little children die Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Tyranny And Tyrants; Villains In Literature FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wavering shapes, again ye do me enfold Last Line: Ground.) Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun his ancient music makes Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUST BOOK: LUCIFER BROODS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: It was quite simple Last Line: God knows! Yelled meretrix Subject(s): Devil; Villains In Literature FAUST, SELECTION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who yet may hope to rise Last Line: The crane unresting fares in homeward flight. Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches FAUST, SELS., by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Last Line: To manage witches, this is just the way Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft And Witches FRENCH LISETTE; A BALLAD OF MAIDA VALE, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who strolls so late, for mugs a bait Last Line: Tis folly abounding in a strange surrounding %to be divorced from one's pants Subject(s): Prostitution; Villains In Literature FRIAR'S TALE, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That thief, the summoner (the friar went on) Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Villains In Literature GOLDEN VANITY (13), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A ship I have got in the north country Last Line: And left him without more ado to drift with the tide, %and to sink by the lowlands low Subject(s): Treason And Traitors; Villains In Literature LE MORTE D'ARTHUR, SELS., by THOMAS MALORY Poem Source First Line: Sir mordred, traitor false and vile Last Line: For england's sorrow sore Subject(s): Treason And Traitors; Villains In Literature LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Led Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus LEGEND OF STUMPIE'S BRAE, SELS., by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They shorten'd the corp, and they pack'd him tight Last Line: And the ghaist came clattering in Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature LORD BARRENSTOCK, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord barrenstock and epicene Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Con Artists; Villains In Literature LORD BARRENSTOCK, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord barrenstock and epicene Last Line: Be good, my lord, since you can not be pretty Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Con Artists; Villains In Literature MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw Last Line: Are nothing more than agents for the cat who all the time %just controls their operations: the napol Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime And Criminals; Villains In Literature MILLER'S TALE, SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shoes upon her legs were laced up high Last Line: That when she saw a chance, she would be his Subject(s): Seduction; Villains In Literature MURDER OF MARIA MARTEN, by UNKNOWN+303 Poem Source First Line: Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me Last Line: For murdering maria marten, I was hang'd upon the tree Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature MURDER ON THE DOWNS, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past a cow and past a cottage Last Line: And in the bracken like a bed %the murderee Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me! Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOT LONG AGO I MET A CLERK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now my maidenhead is taken! Subject(s): Seduction; Villains In Literature NOTHING TO FEAR, by KINGSLEY AMIS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: All fixed: early arrival at the flat Last Line: As cold as ice, but just as set on me Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Villains In Literature ON HAYLEY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To forgive enemies h-- does pretend Last Line: Do be my enemy -- for friendship's sake Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Hypocrisy; Mythology; Villains In Literature ON LADY POLTAGRUE: A PUBLIC PERIL, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The devil, having nothing else to do Last Line: To his extreme annoyance, tempted him. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can there be anything more mean Last Line: When he praises michael angelo Subject(s): Bible; Hypocrisy; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Villains In Literature OTELLO, SELS., by ARRIGO BOITO Poem Source First Line: Iago. Yes, I believe in god who has created Last Line: And heaven's a foolish tale Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature POOR BUT HONEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she was poor, but she was honest" Last Line: It's the rich as gets the pleasure - / ain't it all a bleeding shame! Subject(s): Dishonor;seduction;villains In Literature;wealth; Riches;fortunes PORPHYRIA'S LOVER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain set early in to-night Last Line: And yet god has not said a word! Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature ROCHESTER'S CONFERENCE WITH A POST BOY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of a whore, god damn you! Can you tell Last Line: The readiest way, my lord's by rochester. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Accidents; Villains In Literature SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gr-r-r - there go, my heart's abhorrence! Last Line: Ave, virgo! Gr-r-r -- you swine! Subject(s): Hate; Hypocrisy; Villains In Literature SONNET: 94, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They that have power to hurt, and will do none Last Line: Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. Variant Title(s): "the Life Without Passion;""they That Have Pow'r To Hut And Will Do None""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Hypocrisy; Sin; Villains In Literature; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Men, brother men, that after us yet live Last Line: But pray to god that he forgive us all. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): Ballade Of The Gibbet Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE MAIMED DEBAUCHEE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some brave admiral, in former war Last Line: And being good for nothing else, be wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): The Disabled Debauchee Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seduction; Villains In Literature; Seamen; Sails THREEPENNY OPERA, SELS., by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source Subject(s): Villains In Literature TO SIDMOUTH AND CASTLEREAGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As from an ancestral oak Last Line: Two vipers tangled into one. Variant Title(s): Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819 Subject(s): Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth; England; Politics & Government; Statesmen; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; English; Castlereagh, Viscount VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose you screeve? Or go cheap-jack Last Line: Booze and the blowens cop the lot Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose you screeve? Or go cheap-jack Last Line: Booze and the blowens cop the lot Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Villains In Literature |
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